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From:International Journal of Health Policy and Management (Vol. 3, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The aim of this study was to examine the impacts of multiple indicators of Socio-economic Status (SES) on Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) related readmission. Methods: A prospective study consisting of 315...
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From:Annals of African Medicine (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: K. Tunau, A. Adamu, M. Hassan, Y. Ahmed, B. Ekele Background/Objectives: Menarche, the first menstrual period, is influenced by many factors including socio-economic status and rural or urban dwelling. The...
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From:Early Theatre (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his work on popular rebellions in early modern England, Andy Wood identifies 'a unifying political language' that captures the history of class conflict during the emergence of agrarian capitalism, which he then...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 46, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To evaluate the extent of racial gaps in child health insurance coverage in South America and study the contribution of wealth, human capital, and other household characteristics to accounting for racial...
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From:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 64, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground/Objectives: To test a socioeconomic hypothesis on three dietary patterns and to describe the relation between three commonly used methods to determine dietary patterns, namely Healthy Eating Index,...
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From:Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Emerging evidence seems to suggest that there is some association between individual socioeconomic status and sexual risk-taking behaviour in subSaharan Africa. A number of broad associations have emerged,...
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From:Canadian Review of Sociology (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper provides a new occupational scale for the Canadian National Occupational Classification system. The historical context for occupational scales produced by sociologists in Canada and the United States is first...
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From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 30, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE--Predictors of insulin resistance have hitherto only been examined in cross-sectional studies without information on lifestyle factors. Few researchers have measured insulin sensitivity directly and compared...
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From:Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (Vol. 55, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Study objective--To quantify and investigate differences in survival from breast cancer between women resident in affluent and deprived areas and define the contribution of underlying factors to this...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPortraits of Class, Rank and Reputation: An Ethnography of Three Fiji Secondary Schools. Carmen M. White, Central Michigan University, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Anspach 139, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859;...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 325, Issue 7356) Peer-ReviewedThe authors report on an inquiry into the question of whether or not social variables which relate to an individual's height, such as movement through the class structure in the United Kingdom, exaggerate the impact of...
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From:Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRace, class, and gender are social, political, economic, and cultural constructs that describe the positionalities of people. How these constructs are defined depends on the status occupied by individuals and the...
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From:Arena Journal (Issue 15) Peer-ReviewedThis debate grew out of the 1998 MUA wharf dispute and in particular an Arena Magazine article by John Hinkson that criticized the treatment of the dispute by Stuart Macintyre in Overland. (1) I replied to that article...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUse of the concept of class in sociology has come under three types of attack: that it contains residues of an unacceptable Marxist holism or otherwise lacks explanatory power; that it is an essentially contested and,...
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From:Canadian Journal of Sociology (Vol. 21, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. This paper builds on the research on occupational mobility and class reproduction in Canada and elsewhere by drawing on a national representative sample of Canadians surveyed in 1986. It evaluates the effect...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 313, Issue 7072) Peer-ReviewedThis year's cover is about death. What does it mean, and why such an unseasonal choice? Even without any conscious effort on our part, death is always present in Christmas BMJs. Maybe people write about what's really...
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From:Youth & Society (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article assesses the relative base rates of common forms of youth psychopathology among Whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and rarer minorities and across social classes as defined by parent education levels. A...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRecent critiques of the usefulness of the concept of class (Pahl 1989; Clark and Lipset 1991) have developed into more specific criticisms of the lack of theory underlying `class analysis' as practiced by Goldthorpe and...
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From:Journal of Clinical Sciences (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Adebayo. Ibikunle, Abdurrazaq. Taiwo, Olalekan. Gbotolorun, Ramat. Braimah Introduction: Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rapidly progressive, potentially fatal tissue infection with primary involvement of the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Thomas Engels 1,*, Quentin Baglione 1, Martine Audibert 1, Anne Viallefont 1, Fouzi Mourji 2, Mustapha El Alaoui Faris 3, for the GRAVCM Study Group Background Global burden of stroke The World...